What Happens to a Grain When it is Milled?

Do you like cakes? You must love them, but have you ever wondered about the story behind the flour that is used to create such a heavenly sweet thing? Well, wheat is what converts into flour and then into your cake.

Wheat is an essential part of our diet without which no Indian’s food is complete! But do you know where it comes from?

Do you like cakes? You must love them, but have you ever wondered about the story behind the flour that is used to create such a heavenly sweet thing? Well, wheat is what converts into flour and then into your cake.
Wheat is an essential part of our diet without which no Indian’s food is complete! But do you know where it comes from? The thing is when grain is ground in a flour mill machine, it converts into wheat. The wheat grinding machines are basically the connector that makes the whole process of this transformation complete.
So, today, we are going to know what actually happens to a grain when it is milled by a flour mill machine. Take a look:

There are hundreds of varieties of wheat that are milled in the mill plants. During the milling process, the various parts of the wheat grain are used to create different flour types.

The days of milling process that involved grinding the grains of wheat between the two large wheels are long gone. Now, the modern wheat grinding machines do the whole job. It consists of steel rollers that sit a bit apart from each other.

The wheat is first cleaned and conditioned which is then blended. Here, different kinds of wheat are combined to produce a mix that can, later on, create a fine quality of flour.

During the milling process, the wheat grain gets fragmented into various parts that are separated when it is passed through the arrangement of sieves that is quite a bit complex. The wheat is not crushed but rather split open to separate its two skins.

The white endosperm particles of wheat are known as semolina that is further channeled into deduction rolls for final milling where it converts into white flour. The wholemeal flour has all the parts of grain while brown flour doesn’t include any wheat germ and has also less amount of bran.
During this modern milling process, the bran particles are removed from the endosperm. The endosperm is grounded into the flour while ground stock gets sifted. The final part of the whole milling process is sifting after which the flour is automatically packed into the bags that are then sent to the shops for the selling. The leftover part that is bran is sometimes used as an animal feeder or in breakfast cereals.

At these milling plants, proper inspections and tests are made for the healthy production of flour. However, the heating processes destroy any pathogens present in the flour and reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
The nutritional value of the flour is not at all determined by the method of milling but if it is wholemeal, brown or white.

 

Enquire Now

Latest Technology in Flour Milling Machines

Top-quality flour provides the basis for making high-quality foods. In order to transform grain into flour of unsurpassed quality, specially designed plant and equipment is needed in addition to the knowledge of the relevant process stages.

Cleaning Action

The raw grain supplied to grain mills will typically contain impurities. Before processing, foreign seeds and contaminants that have entered the grain on the field as well as during harvesting, transportation and storage must be removed. Careful separation of the impurities will ensure a high quality of the end products. The reduction of the mineral content will have an impact on the taste and odor of the product. Moreover, it allows wear to be reduced and the service life of machinery to be extended.

Efficient Grain Cleaning Solutions –
Separator Classifier
Combi-cleaner
De-stoner
Automatic moisture controller
DC Peeler
Scourer
Efficient cleaning — top-class flour results

Separating efficiency
Coarse, low-density, and high-density impurities are removed from the grain stream with high efficiency and accuracy. This lays the basis for obtaining a high-quality, top-class product.

Revolutionized sorting
Sortex checks the purity of the input product with exceptional accuracy. Within fractions of a second, foreign material is detected and removed.

Surface cleaning
This microscopic magnification shows sand grains and other contaminants on the wheat surface. Gentle dehulling enables these impurities to be removed from the grain surface.

Smart User Interface
Intelligent user guidance in conjunction with a user-friendly software allows the cleaning machines to be operated with ease as well as optimal machine settings.

Milling

With its Antares roller mill, one can set the standards in grain milling. Whether for corn (maize), soft wheat, durum, rye, barley or malt – Antares is the ideal roller mill for all varieties of grain. The new Antares roller mill satisfies the rigorous requirements of the modern grain milling industry in terms of economy, user-friendliness, maintenance, and sanitation.
– Perfect milling
– Top sanitation
– Ultimate design

Carefully designed grinding solutions
– antares four- and eight-roller mill
– Polaris purifier
– sirius square plansifter
– Bran finisher
– Impact detacher
– Vibratory sieving machine

High Throughput, Optimal Economy
Excellent sanitation and product safety- The Novapur sieve frames of polyurethane with frame inserts of stainless steel ensure top sanitation of the sifter.
Outstanding quality Low-maintenance system components and smart designs guarantee top reliability in round-the-clock service with a consistently high grinding quality.

Solutions for High-Precision Weighing, Proportioning & Mixing
Grain and end products are retrieved from storage bins, weighed and then transferred to the production process using the weighing and proportioning technology. Continuous processes can be accurately measured and controlled by the differential proportioning scale. The micro-feeding process allows customized end products of uniform quality to be made
– Universal control system
– Outstanding precision
– High mixing quality

Bagging & Outloading, Manual and Fully Automatic Solutions
Taking bag-packing to the highest possible level of performance: solutions are synonymous with efficient bagging of end products. Whether products are packed into open-mouth bags of paper, plastic, jute, or cotton with weights ranging from 10 to 50 kg and using manual or automatic solutions.
– High bagging capacity
– Easy operation
– Dust-tight packing

Quality Assurance
Unrivaled, uncompromising quality.
There is no room for compromises when it comes to food safety. Therefore vendors offer various carefully matched solutions and systems in order to meet the high sanitation and food safety requirements.
– Integrated solutions
– Food safety
– Consistently high product quality

Reliable quality assurance solutions-
Magnetic separator
Control sifter
Sterilator
NIR DA online measurement system
Combined solutions for assuring product quality

Technology and Automation from a Single Source
Automation systems which integrally combine process technology and control engineering. This is the key to achieving the best possible production processes and thus top competitiveness – now as well as in the future.
– High operating reliability
– Standardized customer services with 24/7 support hotline
– Efficient production processes

Automation for reliable
WinCoS.r2 process control system
Control cabinets
Professional cabling
Motors and electrical installations
Grinding process control system with intuitive user interfaces

 

Enquire Now

Flour Milling Process

Flour is the finely ground powdered material obtained from food crops like wheat, corns, and pulses. Wheat flour is the most common and is used in the production of bread. The dough is prepared from the wheat flour and is used to bake pieces of bread out of it. Dough prepared from the flour contains gluten which is enriched in proteins.

What is Flour?

Flour is the finely ground powdered material obtained from food crops like wheat, corns, and pulses. Wheat flour is the most common and is used in the production of bread. The dough is prepared from wheat flour and is used to bake pieces of bread out of it. Dough prepared from the flour contains gluten which is enriched in proteins. It is gluten where gases produced from yeast and other bacteria make the dough fluffy and eventually softer.

 

Process of Flour Milling And Grinding 

 In ancient times grinding was done by sliding rocks with wheat in between. It was a great technology for that time period. Thankfully, we have the much better technology to serve us today. Let us divide this section into subheadings to go into details of Flour Milling:

  • Cleaning the Wheat – The wheat obtained from the fields is not in the best of conditions and it is obligatory to clean it thoroughly before any other thing. There is a device called separator that does the job here as it removes the unwanted particles and adulterations from the raw material. Then there are aspirators which aim at removing minute particles which are much lighter than wheat grains.

 

  • Preparing the Raw Material – Once the cleaning phase is over, we can proceed further to prepare the raw material for grinding purposes. Here the wheat is dried to make sure that extra moisture is taken care of. Also, wheat is sometimes conditioned with hot water or cold water treatments. Conditioning helps in improving the quality of the raw materials.

 

  • Grinding – This is the real action; here the raw material is ground to make a powder out of the wheat grains. First of all, all types of grains are blended well to form a batch of the raw material.

 

Now, this batch is introduced to two big rollers which are ready to crush each grain into powder. These rollers are called breaker rolls. With the help of filters, the powder is collected according to their particles sizes. The finer particles with finest ones are collected at one place. With the help of vibrations, cleaning is done at this stage as well. Upon vibration, the lighter particles skip the heavier ones.

 

  • Processing – Now we have the flour with us, we just need to process it. In other words, this is the final touch before the flour is packed and dispatched. In this phase, bleaching and oxidizing agents are used to ensure good quality of the wheat flour.

These four stages sum up The Process of Flour Milling. Now the flour is ready to be used, rather baked into breads.

 

Enquire Now